Test 2 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Johnnie and…

Mate, was the mayor proper dodgy about the thousand quid?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Mate mayor

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 653 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Johnnie and Tina trick the dragon back into chains, and he becomes the first cat» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mayor	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mayor	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mayor	det
5	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	proper	properly	ADV	_	7 dodgy	advmod
7	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mayor	amod
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 quid	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 quid	det
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 quid	nummod
11	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dodgy	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mayor	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Mate mayor					tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he said the dragon had to be chained first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragon	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	10 chained	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 chained	aux:pass
10	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 had	xcomp
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 chained	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	the dragon		tree rules
3	chain	to-infinitive · passive	the dragon not said here	first property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 2

Nah, he paid them the full sum straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sum	det
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sum	amod
8	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obj
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	4 paid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	he	them = they				away property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient sum=Asset

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he said the dragon had to be chained up again first, which was a proper rotten excuse

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragon	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	10 chained	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 chained	aux:pass
10	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 had	xcomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 chained	compound:prt
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 chained	advmod
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 chained	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 excuse	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 excuse	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 excuse	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 excuse	det
18	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 excuse	amod
19	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 excuse	amod
20	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chained	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	the dragon				tree rules
3	chain up	to-infinitive · passive	the dragon not said here		again	first property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	is a	past		a proper rotten excuse			tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he said the dragon had to be chained first and then the children could argue about it all year

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragon	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	10 chained	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 chained	aux:pass
10	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 had	xcomp
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 chained	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 argue	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 argue	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 children	det
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 argue	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 argue	aux
17	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 chained	conj
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 argue	obl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 year	det
21	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 argue	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	the dragon			tree rules
3	chain	to-infinitive · passive	the dragon not said here		first property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	argue speech: disagree	could	the children	then; year	about dragon	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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